IT Release Management Sr. Specialist
What you’ll do
Role purpose: Responsible for all release management activities across the IT department ensuring processes and automations are in place to ensure operations stability and no conflict between different releases.
Accountable for all the agile release planning, assessment and prioritization across the IT domain.
Defining the IT strategic direction for release management tools for IT to ensure the process requirements of release management are built in.
Communicate with Agile teams/scrum masters on a daily basis to define and plan releases.
Technical assessment to releases across IT to ensure no conflicting deployments that would impact operational stability
Post production accountability for releases through monitoring tools and defined KPIs.
Key accountabilities and decision ownership
• Operational stability with zero impact for all planned releases.
• All deployments are abiding with release management processes
• Monitoring KPIs for production releases are in place and effective in detecting any instability after releasing.
Core competencies, knowledge and experience
• Superior Technical skills in different IT domains.
• Expertise in IT domains with hands on experience.
• Strong communication skills.
• Ability to embrace and foster change.
• Passion for the customer.
• Detail-oriented, analytical, pro-active approach to problem identification and solving.
• Ability to quickly adapt to changing priorities and generate innovative solutions in an extremely fast-paced environment.
Superior organizational and time management skills.
Must have technical / professional qualifications:
• Bachelor degree in Computer Science or Communication
• 3+ Years’ Experience in Telecommunications Market
• Manage and Coach diversified team in a changing environment
Not a perfect fit?
Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about Inclusion for All and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another role, and our recruitment team can help you see how your skills fit in.
What's in it for you
We want you to feel happy and fulfilled at work, without compromising the other things in life that matter to you. There are lots of ways we support this, including hybrid working and generous parental leave. You'll also get four Spirit Days a year to focus on your personal development and wellbeing, plus a host of other great benefits too.
Who we are
You may have already heard of Vodafone - We're a leading Telecommunications company in Europe and Africa. But what you might not know is that we are continuously investing in new technologies to improve the lives of millions of customers, businesses and people around the world, creating a better future for everyone.
As part of our global family, whether that's Vodafone, Vodacom or _VOIS, you'll feel a sense of pride and purpose as you contribute to our culture of innovation. We pursue equality of opportunity and inclusion for all candidates through our employment policies and practices. We recognise and celebrate the importance of diversity and inclusivity in our workspace and we do not tolerate any form of discrimination especially related to but not limited to race, colour, age, veteran status, gender identification, sexual orientation, pregnancy, ethnicity, disability, religion, political affiliation, trade union membership, nationality, indigenous status, medical condition, HIV status, social origin, cultural background, social, or marital status.
Together we can.